IEC InfoVision Awards
 The ProStream™ 1000 with Mentor™ re-encoding technology has been selected as the best new product in the Content, Entertainment, Applications and Services category of this year's International Engineering Consortium (IEC) InfoVision Awards. The ProStream 1000 with Mentor technology is an ideal solution for video service providers transitioning to an increasingly personalized and on-demand viewing experience. In video-on-demand (VOD) and other emerging unicast applications such as network personal video recording (nPVR) and time-shifted TV, the operator must efficiently repurpose real-time broadcast programming and other pre-encoded video content so that it can be transported in CBR format. Harmonic's unique Mentor processing technology allows the ProStream 1000 to achieve the best possible CBR video quality by combining state-of-the-art, resilient and compliant MPEG-2 decoding with an extremely powerful and flexible compression engine for up to 16 encoded video streams within a single one rack-unit system. The award which was announced Tuesday, October 10th at the Broadband World Forum Europe show in Paris, honors innovative technologies that enhances the end-user experience, optimizes service efficiency and contributes to positive growth in the telecommunications industry. Previously, on Wednesday, May 17, 2006, at the Broadband World Forum Asia, in Hong Kong, Harmonic was awarded an InfoVision award for the FLXLink™ T1/E1 Commercial Services Solution in the Wireless Broadbad category. Judging criteria included:
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